Analyze and Fix Index Fragmentation in SQL Server 2008
This article describes how an index gets fragmented and the steps which a DBA can take to fix index fragmentation
Determine Object Dependencies Before Changing Your SQL Server Schema Design
Maintaining a database often means schema changes. Before you change or delete anything, be sure to check for dependent objects.
Alone Time
Working in a distributed team can be challenging, but working in an office can be just as difficult. Steve Jones talks a bit about time management today.
SQL Server 2008 Mirroring Testing
Comparison of performance of SQL 2008 mirroring to SQL 2005 mirroring.
Configuring storage in DB with more writes than reads
Learn how to configure SQL Server database storage with higher disk writes than disk reads. Set up a RAID 10 array, cache configuration and file disk layout.
Data Types in SQL Server 2008
Don Schlichting compares and contrasts the various SQL Server 2008 Data Types. In addition, he explores which Data Types are the best solutions for specific situations.
Versioning Over Time
How do you handle the tracking of changes across time in a database? Not auditing, but the actual structural and schema changes. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with rapidly changing versions.
Versioning Over Time
How do you handle the tracking of changes across time in a database? Not auditing, but the actual structural and schema changes. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with rapidly changing versions.
Versioning Over Time
How do you handle the tracking of changes across time in a database? Not auditing, but the actual structural and schema changes. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with rapidly changing versions.
How To Avoid Msg 106
When you have too many tables in a view, what can you do? New author Henrik Staun Poulsen brings us a solution that we
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Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
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Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
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This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
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While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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SQL ART: Who's Blocking Who? Visualising SQL Server Blocking With Spatial Geometry
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Running SQLCMD II
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Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers